hard to read scriptures

Ambrose 2022-09-04 11:13:20

Someone on Time.com recommended "Tokyo Sonata", and it was really good. The story is very solid, the performance is restrained, there is a very realistic coldness, there is also a very humanistic warmth, and there is a bit of thinking so far. For many people who like fast-paced movies, it will feel a little boring. But according to the long tail theory, there are always people who like it. Just like a buddy who sells wine barrels on Taobao, Shengsheng makes a niche business to the extreme, and earns only a few people's money.

Briefly tell the story of "Tokyo Sonata": her husband is the head of the general affairs department of a large company. He was laid off due to the company's business adjustment. The wife is a standard housewife, serving her husband and two sons every day. She is a little lost in the day-to-day housework. She has learned a driver's license, but she doesn't know what to do with herself; Bored, he finally chose to join the mercenaries recruited by the United States in Japan, and was then sent to Iraq; the youngest son graduated from elementary school, because he liked the piano (perhaps he liked the female piano teacher), and secretly paid the lunch fee for the piano tuition. In his room, he practiced with a silent electronic organ that he had picked up. In the end, he was found to be extremely talented in piano. The teacher wrote to his parents and recommended him to go to the middle school attached to the Conservatory of Music. As a result, it was revealed that he was beaten by his father... It is such an ordinary and a little depressed family, like every ordinary family with joy and sorrow.

Everyone has their own depression. Even if they live under one roof, it is difficult for them to overlap, and they suffer from their own frustrations. There are a lot of supporting characters in the film, and they also have their own hard-to-read scriptures - the protagonist's friend Kurobeard is also an unemployed man who hangs on the streets. He was so busy that he chose to commit suicide after his wife found out; the robber who burglarized and kidnapped the hostess was actually a failed lockpicker. The first robbery after his career failed, he actually met the heroine who was in psychological crisis. After some inexplicable experience, he also left sadly; the beautiful female teacher who taught the piano was going through a divorce lawsuit and was emotionally frustrated; even the team leader when the protagonist finally went to the mall to work as a cleaner was essentially an unemployed professional elite...

We have an old saying in China: Every family has a scripture that is difficult to read. This movie further reveals that in fact, everyone has a scripture that is difficult to read. It's just that everyone is depressed about their own depression, who can and who wants to care what others are thinking and what hurts?

After the youngest son was detained overnight in the detention center for evading fares, he returned to his empty home in the early morning. After the hostess was kidnapped, the robbers committed suicide, and she also went home. When she saw the youngest son who had returned, she asked, what do you want to eat? , I'll do it for you; the master found a huge sum of money, but at the same time his wife found out that he was working as a cleaner. When he fled in a panic, he was knocked out by a car. It was early morning when he woke up, and he still threw the huge sum of money into the lost and found. In the box, go home! Go home and become the only solution the three choose together.

The family sat together and ate breakfast again, no one asked what happened to each other, but sitting together again was already acceptance, recognition and tolerance. Yes, yes, what can we do without sitting together? If you don't accept recognition, what can you do? There really isn't a second solution to this. There is no solution to the dilemma, so the best solution is not to solve it.

Earlier I liked to say: problem solving is a deep loss. If you choose to be puzzled, it can be regarded as a solution but not a solution, but is it not a solution? An indecision.

Think about it too, although I am an "anti-familialist", I have to admit that "home" is really a pretty good invention of human beings. As divine animals, people always help each other in material and spiritual. In order to seek spiritual refuge, even if there are a lot of toxic and side effects in "home", people still flock to it, probably because of these dual needs. The "family plan" restricts people, but also helps them, hurts and protects people. It is not the best plan, but it is the better one among the many bad plans.

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  • Augusta 2022-04-21 09:03:53

    Occasionally derailed, changed, made a mistake and made a blunder is a good medicine to maintain daily life - from this perspective, the "inconsistency of style" of this family ethics horror comedy can be forgiven...  .8 The highlight of Sino-US-Japan relations reminds me of "The End of Flowers" on 911......

  • Makayla 2022-04-15 09:01:07

    Is life a mess? Maybe, but you have to keep going.

Tokyo Sonata quotes

  • Megumi Sasaki: Screw your authority.

  • Megumi Sasaki: How wonderful it would be if my whole life so far turns out to have been a dream, and suddenly I wake up and I'm someone else entirely.